Portland Rosebuds (ice hockey)
| Portland Rosebuds | |
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| City | Portland, Oregon |
| League | PCHA |
| Founded | 1914[1] |
| Home arena | Portland Ice Arena |
| Colors | Navy and white |
| Championships | |
| Regular season titles | 1916 |
Portland Rosebuds was the name of two professional professional men's ice hockey teams in Portland, Oregon. Both teams played their home games at the Portland Ice Arena.
1914–1918 Portland Rosebuds [edit]
The first Portland Rosebuds played in the Pacific Coast Hockey Association from 1914 to 1918. The team was previously known as the New Westminster Royals, an inaugural member of the PCHA in 1911. The team moved to Portland due to poor attendance in New Westminister, British Columbia and the availability of a larger arena in Portland. In 1916 the Portland Rosebuds won the PCHA championship and briefly held the Stanley Cup, losing it to the Montreal Canadiens in the 1916 Stanley Cup Final. Their win is memorialized on the Stanley Cup as "Portland Ore./PCHA Champions/1915–16" on the 1909 base ring, one of the permanent rings. Portland was the first United States-based team to participate in the Stanley Cup Finals.
1925–1926 Portland Rosebuds [edit]
The second Rosebuds team was born when the Regina Capitals moved to Portland for the 1925-26 WHL season. This was the final season for the Western Hockey League (WHL).
When the league folded, the Saskatoon players were sold to form the Montreal Maroons. Frank Patrick then negotiated the sale of the rest of the WHL players to the National Hockey League. The players were to be sold as three teams, one from the Victoria Cougars, one from the Rosebuds, and a third from the best players from Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver. A deal was reached where the players of the Rosebuds were sold for $100,000 to form the new Chicago Black Hawks expansion franchise.[2]
References [edit]
- ^ |title = 1915-1916 Portland Rosebuds Hockey | work = http://www.sportingoregon.com/p385547134 | accessdate = 2013-04-12 }}
- ^ Whitehead, Eric (1980). The Patricks, hockey's royal family. Toronto, Ontario: Doubleday Canada. pp. 152, 157. ISBN 0-385-15662-6.
- Coleman, Charles (1964). The Trail of the Stanley Cup, vol. 1, 1893-1926 inc. National Hockey League.
